The socioeconomic distribution of life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in Chile

• Main Authors: Manuel Antonio Espinoza (Author), Rodrigo Severino (Author), Carlos Balmaceda (Author), Tomas Abbott (Author), Baltica Cabieses (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2023-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Life expectancy (LE) has usually been used as a metric to monitor population health. In the last few years, metrics such as Quality-Adjusted-Life-Expectancy (QALE) and Health-Adjusted-Life- Expectancy (HALE) have gained popularity in health research, given their capacity to captu...